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Yes I have rebooted multiple times now any help would be greatly appreciated I'll give the output to lspci below.
Keep in Mind I'm running it on a Asus Crosshair V Formula 990FX chipset (But even in Winblows it picksups as an 890 so not too concerned)

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First Q - if I remember our product numbers correctly that's 5 GPUs worth of boards there -- I thought we only supported up to 4.

I haven't played with crossfire at all but first thing I would try is reducing the number of GPUs.

lol nope that be interesting though, 5970 has 2 GPU's and the 5870 has 1 so it's Tri-Fire even in windblows only 4 gpus is supported I believe , this motherboard does support Quad cards not sure how the drivers would react too putting in 4 dual gpu cards even if you could get it work would most likely be a bottle neck anyway so wouldn't be worth it not to mention you can substitute your tower for a small heater at the point lol

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Whoops, one of those 5970 devices was an audio controller. Reply in haste, repent in leisure

My guess is that 2-way gets more testing than 3-way, might be worth trying with just the 5970 first. There are some slightly different aticonfig --initial parms required, something like adapters=all IIRC, check that as well.

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Whoops, one of those 5970 devices was an audio controller. Reply in haste, repent in leisure

My guess is that 2-way gets more testing than 3-way, might be worth trying with just the 5970 first. There are some slightly different aticonfig --initial parms required, something like adapters=all IIRC, check that as well.

Yep already did all that xorg.conf all setup (fyi aticonfig won't even allow you to set crossfire chains up unless the devices are already specified in the xorg.conf) and tired with just the 5970 same outcome.

Even under normal a situation with two discreet cards they have to be in the same Series to X-fire with exception of the a couple of 5700 and 6700 series cards. Being one of your
GPU's is really an APU not sure how that would work out. From my understanding it possible to X-fire with a APU but only with certain combinations haven't see a chart for those
situations though and at that was in Win7 x64.
Even if you do get one up and going there has been claims of Micro Stuttering. However it is said you can add a second discreet card and that wouldn't be a problem.